BAY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE (Press Release) – The Bay County Sheriff’s Office was called to a business on Panama City Beach this [Monday] morning at about 11 a.m. in reference to a report of a man with a machete stealing items.
Deputies responded to the business. The victim, the driver of a delivery truck, stated he was delivering supplies to restaurants when he saw someone enter his truck at the back. The driver confronted the man, who was handing a carton of potato chips to a woman standing outside the truck. When confronted, the man produced a machete, threatened the victim, and fled in a vehicle with the female suspect. The victim was able to describe the vehicle to deputies.
Deputies and investigators from Criminal Investigations responded and began looking for the vehicle. It was spotted by an investigator on the side of the road at the intersection of Surf Drive and Choctaw [Street] on Panama City Beach. No one was in the vehicle, so several investigators began to watch the vehicle.
A man and a woman eventually came back to the vehicle. The two investigators, in two cars, attempted to approach the vehicle. The driver of the vehicle, the male suspect, rammed an investigator’s vehicle head-on, and fled, leaving the female suspect behind. She was taken into custody. She was identified as Jasmine Elizabeth Mundy, age 24, of Pasco County, Florida. She was wanted on an active warrant for Violation of Probation for Possession of Alprazolam, Possession of Hydrocodone, Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Failure to appear on charges of Possession of Controlled Substance without a Prescription. She is now additionally charged with Armed Robbery.
The suspect’s vehicle was pursued over Hathaway Bridge where deputies lost sight of the vehicle. However, another investigator spotted the vehicle on Highway 390 and began to follow. The suspect’s vehicle entered a neighborhood, drove through it, and then out onto the runway of the old airport. Several marked cars responded and the suspect rammed several law enforcement cars, slammed through a chain link fence gate and got back into Highway 390 where he crashed the vehicle into a ditch at Highway 390 and Jackson Way and fled on foot. He was apprehended a short distance later.
Four different law enforcement vehicles were rammed during this incident and two deputies were taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. One is home and another remains hospitalized in good condition.
The male suspect was identified as Dustin Odum, age 26, also of Pasco, County, Florida. Odum was recently released from prison. He served time for Grand Theft Auto, Burglary of an Occupied Conveyance, and Felon in Possession of a Firearm. He is now charged with Aggravated Fleeing and Eluding with Injuries, Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon (3 counts), Resisting an Officer Without Violence, Driving With License Suspended or Revoked, Felony Criminal Mischief, and Armed Robbery.
The estimated value of the stolen items was $17.00.
Source: wjhg.com
